Example sentences of "[pron] give [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 2 | I gave the next sentence a great deal of lip and tongue work . |
| 3 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 4 | Prevalent among the emotions on view were : self-satisfaction amongst those who had received their C'est la Vie gift box , which included a baroque heart-shaped brooch estimated to be worth about £120 and , amongst those whose boxes had gone astray , resentment ( which gave the first group an opportunity for a bit of schadenfreude , which , emotionally speaking , is always a big hit ) . |
| 5 | Could anti-Semitism , so pivotal in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , have been of only minor significance in forming the bonds between Führer and people which gave the Third Reich its popular legitimation and plebiscitary base of acclamation ? |
| 6 | The elasticity of substitution would normally be defined as : which gives a fourth relation between the parameters when set equal to an external estimate of a . |
| 7 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 8 | Furthermore , if you give a second pulse , a short period after the first pulse , you fail to elicit a large sodium current . |
| 9 | As a communist leader who has , in his own way , resisted change said before ordering the tanks to go in , ‘ If you give a first step , it is never the last . ’ |
| 10 | I told her on , on a Friday when she gives the first . |
| 11 | ‘ You gave the second twin to Celia ? ’ demanded David . |
| 12 | With a stick some eighteen inches long , you gave the first stick a tap at the point causing it to spring in the air . |
| 13 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 14 | We give the first two bars of the passage , which continues in an exactly similar manner for twelve more bars or so . |
| 15 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 16 | But no-one gives a second glance to a frail Japanese man , who stands , cupping his hand over a cigarette , looking a little lost amid the general traffic . |
| 17 | Before he was 19 , Gauss had constructed , by straightedge and compass , a regular 17-gon , the first " new " constructible regular polygon for 2000 years , and in 1799 he gave the first satisfactory proof ( where Newton , Euler and Lagrange had failed ) of the fundamental theorem of algebra ( 4.8.1 ) . |
| 18 | Then for his doctoral thesis ( 1799 ) he gave the first ever proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra ( Section 4.8 ) . |
| 19 | In 1870 he gave the first authentic account of amoebae from the human intestine . |
| 20 | Now that okay no problems there , second and third but look at this , he gave the first second and third and they did n't even have a handicap . |
| 21 | One of the first bits of advice he gave the First Church was , ‘ Bend the knee , but not unwisely . ’ |
| 22 | It gave a last deep cry , its teeth closed on the empty air , and it fell to the ground . |
| 23 | Was appalled to find myself given a first task of writing a blurb for a feature on the dreadful Gaye Bykers On Acid . |